Gadgetory

hello I'm Tom Merritt editor from cnet.com and welcome to road warrior where we take a look at the hottest gadgets for life on the go coming up we have a three pack bluetooth headset bluetooth car USB car stereo you're gonna love it first though we have to take a peek at the Cohen d to music and video player it has a touchscreen but Jasmine's not that impressed but you know I'm not sure how I feel about not having really any buttons to control it makes blind control almost impossible and of course you're going to get a lot of fingerprints and marks on the screen there's also concern that you might damage the screen although this has a pretty good coating on it probably like most smart phones and pdas would have it comes with four gigabytes of storage and you can add two gigs more with an SD card okay let's begin our three pack three pack first Nicole Lee has the LG hbm 550 bluetooth headset on the front here is the multifunction button on top on the top here is the power charger jack and on site here is the volume rocker you know very easy to press on the side here on the back here is flexible your loop here he also has a very simple curved speaker here the rest very comfortably in the year Nicole mentions it matches well with the LG chocolate phone but it could also go with this car the Audi a3 a3 has multiple options for your cell phone actually now getting our phone connected to our Audi a3 is an interesting mix we have the technology package on this car which includes bluetooth but there's also back here in the console evidence of a dockable connector and sure enough Audi has a doc solution like Mercedes you've got a two-headed thing here Bluetooth and or doc the doc of course performs better but has to be specific to your phone it also has a CD player and the nav systems DVD player plays mp3s but that's not very convenient you got to open that compartment up so if you want more options try the Sony car stereo that plays music in some ways you might not expect it's the first that we have seen that allows users to play music from generic USB mass storage devices as well as its USB functionality this unit is what sony calls made for ipod and that means it has one of these an intelligence ipod dock connector kevin said the intelligent part means it transfers the ipods controls right to the front of the car stereo nifty that's it for this edition of road warrior I'm Tom Merritt check back next time for more gadgets that keep you armed and dangerously productive